Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper to the panel *"Topologies of Contention"*
at the IUAES Inter-Congress to be held in Poznan, Poland, on 27-31 August
2019:
https://www.iuaes2019.org/
To submit your paper, please choose "Topologies of Contention" here:
https://iuaes2019.syskonf.pl/abstracts
*Short abstract*
Through the notion of topology, this panel explores relations between
political contention and diverse kinds of space – physical, virtual,
embodied, animate or spiritual. We also look for unconventional shapes the
political may take in a world marked by a reshuffling of spatial relations
and scales.
*Long abstract*
This panel explores the spatial dimensions of the political, with a
particular focus on contention and resistance. The world today is marked by
a reshuffling of scale and spatial relations. For instance, capitalism,
having arguably colonized the entire planet, penetrates into the intimacies
of everyday lives and bodies. The cumulative consequences of our everyday
lifestyle practices come back with a vengeance, with Anthropocenic climate
change and intercontinental mass displacement. But at the same time,
resistance flourishes everywhere, as actors seek new ways of living
together with others and creating ‘world solidarities’. Through the notion
of topologies we seek to explore the mutually constitutive relations
between a plurality of different possible spaces ‑ physical, symbolic,
ecological, embodied, virtual, animate, spiritual ‑ and contentious
political dynamics. Our use of the term ‘topology’ is also meant to suggest
a diversity of unconventional shapes that the political may take. How are
diverse kinds of space created out of contentious engagements, and in turn,
how do they foster resistance, new political subjectivities, and
collectives? Furthermore, topological thinking implies destabilizing
conventional notions of scale. How might we account for the ways in which
intimate conflicts, or situated place-based resistances, open out to
planetary urgencies, without presupposing the existence of determinant
‘bigger’ systems or structures? More broadly, how might the notion of
topology expand the horizon of the politically possible, for actors
involved in political struggles as well as for analysts? How to
ethnographically study the topological qualities of the political?
*Convenors*
Mateusz Laszczkowski, PhD, University of Warsaw,
Olivia Casagrande, PhD, The University of Manchester,.
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Dr Mateusz Laszczkowski
Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej
Uniwersytet Warszawski
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Mateusz Laszczkowski, PhD
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Warsaw
*NOW IN PAPERBACK (September 2018):*
*'City of the Future': Modernity, Built Space and Urban Change in Astana
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LaszczkowskiCity>. *
*Download the Introduction
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/LaszczkowskiCity_intro.pdf> here
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*NEW BOOK:*
*Affective States: Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LaszczkowskiAffective> (2017),
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<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/LaszczkowskiAffective_intro.pdf>
here
for free.*
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